The Dragon’s Bride

Chapter 2

I paced back and forth to my house. After I went home from a long tiring shift in the hospital, the sun was out when I arrived at home, the house was dimmed in darkness as I didn’t even bother to turn the lights on and just automatically lay down for a while in my bed and later on just did what I am doing now, pacing back and forth. Thinking about what am I going to do to save my mom, and take her back from who knows where in the other “world”.

‘This is insane! Everything is totally insane! I think I’m gonna lose my mind because of the sudden weird things happening around me!’

Reminiscing what happened awhile ago while I was still on shift, I clearly saw a fairy. It has pointy ears and cute eyes with a tiny body that shimmers from the bright light coming from the sun and it’s tiny wings that made her fly in the air. It was just a glimpse, but I am clearly sure that I saw it on the rooftop of the hospital while I was taking a break and when I went after it, it suddenly disappeared like a bubble.

‘I can’t believe it! All this time, what my mom has been saying since I was a child is definitely true! It’s quite terrifying but also a part of me feels excitement from all these thoughts’.

My head began to throb again,

‘I need to hurry up and save my mom’

I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen to write my mom’s lullaby she used to sing for me. After that, I changed into a new pair of clothes and tied my hair in a ponytail and looked at myself in the mirror.

My face is more thin than usual and my ginger brown hair, like my mother's, is dull, lifeless. I touched the reflection of myself in the mirror. This is not the life I wanted, I just want a normal and peaceful life. I didn’t wish for an extraordinary one, the one my mom wanted to have, but here I am forced to have no choice of options to think but to involve myself in that “unimaginable" other world.

‘Here goes nothing…’

I opened my mouth and began to sing the lullaby, and while I was singing it I could feel a chill down my spine and the atmosphere within the house changed drastically. As I sang the last phrase I felt an eerie sensation crawling in my back, then there was a sudden heavy object hit my head and I was knocked over on the cold floor.

Eyes still close, I had woken up from the heavy sensation I felt that was pinning me down. It was heavy but something warm that kept pulling me closer. I can feel a person’s breath fanning in my ears, making my whole body chilled with excitement. Its broad chest heaves up and down everytime it takes a breath.

My eyes widened when I opened them and realized the arm of a man holding my waist tightly.

‘An arm of a man!!!’ I exclaimed to myself.

He buried his face in my neck, sniffing his nose at it as if he’s inhaling my scent, his legs slide in intertwining on mine unmanneredly. I let out a rasping breath from what he did and felt a sudden heat of pleasure lit inside me. It’s like begging for something I’m afraid to admit.

‘This is dangerous, very dangerous.’

I heard a chuckle behind my back and gave myself a glance at it, only to greet face to face with a seductive godly gorgeous man.

“I can feel your excitement lass, it’s enticing me” he whispered in my ear in his raspy, sleepy voice.

My face lit up red in embarrassment and kicked his shin, making him stumble away from the bed.

“And If I were you, I would be ashamed of my actions! Taking advantage of a defenseless woman sleeping. You are such a jerk!” I shouted at him and pointed a finger.

He stood up and took a slow stride towards me. His tunic was left undone wide open from lying down on the bed, baring his broad tan chest shown in my sight from the light peeping outside, and his trousers were unkept but clean.

As he walked nearer towards me, we looked at each other’s eyes. He has this heart-shaped face and thick eyebrows that compliment his prominent eyes. It has this glowing gold color that seems shining under the light of the sun, his nose is turned-up and his hair was disheveled as he ran his fingers into it. I averted my gaze when I sensed his lips forming a smirk as he noticed me gawking at his super ‘godly’ appearance.

“Like what you’re seeing?” He said, his voice filled with mockery.

He looked at me for a minute and turned his gaze down, looking at my body.

I followed where he looked at and realized I was only wearing a see-through nightdress that clearly showed my perfectly honed breast from his sight.

I quickly snatched the blanket that was on the bed and covered my body with it as my face turned red from the embarrassment.

“Is there another option to disagree?” I retorted and stood up from the bed, walking three steps backward, creating a distance between us. “And who the hell are you? And why am I sleeping in bed with you?!”

“Easy, you are not just the ‘other’ woman” he said as he slowly closed the distance between us and stood right in front of me, his body towering over my small frame. He raised his hand and brushed one of his fingers on my lips seductively, then tilted my chin to meet his alluring gaze. “You are my wife, and you are mine, Kassandre. You are solely mine”. He said and, without another word, my lips were captured in a passionate kiss.